Melanodexia

Melanodexia
Melanodexia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Polleniinae
Tribe: Polleniini
Genus: Melanodexia
Williston 1893
Type species
M. tristis[1]
Williston, 1893
Synonyms

Melanodexiopsis Hall, 1948[1]

Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States.

Description

Like the genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females laterocilnate seta of the fronto-obital plates.[2]

Species

  • M. californica Hall, 1948
  • M. glabricula (Bigot, 1888)
  • M. grandis Shannon, 1926 (Synonyms: M. pacifica Hall, 1948)
  • M. idahoensis (Hall, 1948)
  • M. nox (Hall, 1948)
  • M. satanica Shannon, 1926
  • M. tristina (Hall, 1948)
  • M. tristis Williston, 1893
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References

  1. ^ a b James, Maurice T. (1955). "The Blowflies Of California (Diptera: Calliphoridae)" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Bulletin Of The California Insect Survey (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press) 4 (1): 1–34. http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis04_1.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-13. 
  2. ^ Rognes, Knut (1991) (Hardback). Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 24. Lieden: Brill. p. 209. ISBN 9004093044. 
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